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	'title' => 'Mexican mobile plans',
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<p>
	Current countdowns:
</p>
<ul>
	<li>15 unfinished weblog entries in <a href="/en/weblog/2016/07-July/">July</a></li>
	<li>16 days until my old domain registrar can no longer counter my charge dispute</li>
</ul>
<p>
	<a href="http://get.mp./">dotMP</a> wrote again, informing me that <a href="/en/domains/ystyst.mp.xhtml"><code>//ystyst.mp.</code></a> is going to expire in one day.
</p>
<p>
	I tried to update my voter registration online today, but the voter registration website maliciously discriminates against $a[Tor] users.
	I would need to handle this via postal mail.
	I walked to the post office, filled out the form, and and mailed it.
	Hopefully it will make it in time for me to get my ballot.
	We can&apos;t afford to allow Trump to take office as this country&apos;s leader.
</p>
<p>
	We were discussing $a[IMEI] changing on <a href="ircs://freenodeok2gncmy.onion:6697/%23Replicant">#Replicant</a>, and I mentioned my reason for even wanting to change my $a[IMEI]: to get my Replicant device on a cheaper plan that&apos;s only available for one device.
	Orly_owl had a great idea to save money though: get a <a href="http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.com/wiki/Mexico">Mexican $a[SIM] card</a>! It seems that many of the Mexican mobile plans offer roaming in the United States and Canada.
	Not all do, but because I know about how much data transfer I use, I could save money if I give up my unlimited data-transfer plan.
	There are a couple catches though.
	First, T-Mobile is phasing out my plan in favor of a much more expensive one.
	If I give up my plan, there&apos;s a chance that I won&apos;t get it back.
	Second, my current living situation involves tethering the whole house&apos;s Internet connections through my mobile, so currently, it saves a lot of money to have my unlimited data plan.
	There don&apos;t seem to be unlimited Mexican data plans available.
	If I switch to a Mexican data plan, it will have to wait until we have a home Internet connection, assuming that we ever do.
	One interesting side effect of having a Mexican mobile plan would be that I&apos;d end up with a Mexican telephone number.
	That would be hilarious on so many levels.
	I try to avoid contact via telephone, but an employer might demand a telephone number and I probably won&apos;t be able to turn them down.
	Having a number that doesn&apos;t look familiar could shake things up a bit though.
</p>
<p>
	Vegan Gangster sent me the promised button! Actually, they sent two, though from the sound of it before I asked for any, they were going to send only one.
	It worked out quite well for me though, as they showed three buttons and you don&apos;t get to pick which that you get.
	Two of them actually have the word &quot;vegan&quot; on them, so I wanted one of those two.
	Because I got two of the three, I got one of those two! The other has an image of a monster/cookie hybrid that&apos;s lusting over hemp milk.
	It&apos;s kind of cute, but I doubt that people will have any idea what it means.
</p>
<p>
	My mother has confirmed that we&apos;re moving again from Sweet Home after the school year has ended.
	The start of the journal was the start of a nomadic period for us, I guess.
	Since then, we haven&apos;t spent a full year in any one place.
</p>
<p>
	I read the shortish $a[PDF] file for my <span title="Globalization">POLS 1503</span> course, wrote up my discussion responce, and took the ungraded quiz.
</p>
<blockquote>
<p>
	I found a few things to be very enlightening in this week&apos;s readings.
	The main thing was the part about how exactly different environments had caused different populations to develop at different speeds.
	People living on land masses that are positioned along latitudinal lines as opposed to longitudinal lines had better opportunities to collaborate and share knowledge as their similar climates made discovered knowledge more applicable to those nearby to share it with.
	In other areas, climates changed too much along the continent due to the continent being along the longitudinal axis, so collaboration between peoples was less possible.
	I also found it interesting that a *lack* of resources spurred development in other, more advanced fields, as happened in Great Britten.
	Without trees, they ended up advancing in steelwork instead to compensate.
</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
	Unfortunately, the discussion assignment for the week asked us to focus on <strong>*one*</strong> part of the reading.
	While I was able to merge the topics of land orientation and missing resources into one topic, there&apos;s a third that caught my attention in the readings as well: sex inequality.
	The $a[PDF] brought that up in a light that I hadn&apos;t considered before.
	When the female half of the population is denied access to education, voting rights, the option of a career, et cetera, that&apos;s half of the population that&apos;s not able to be productive.
	It&apos;s no wonder that countries without equal rights tend to be impoverished.
	They&apos;re bringing this on themselves.
</p>
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